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Lifelong singlehood is rising sharply in Morocco, with more than one in ten women remaining unmarried by age 50, according to the High Commission for Planning’s latest social indicators. The rate of permanent celibacy at 50 reached 12.4% among women and 9.7% among men in 2024. Three decades earlier the figures were just 0.8% and […]
Morocco’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.97 children per woman in 2024, dropping below the generational replacement threshold of 2.1 for the first time in the country’s demographic history, according to a study published by France’s Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED). The finding marks a structural turning point: below the replacement level, the population renews […]